Common name: Brewery Arts Center
Historic name: Carson City Brewing Company Brewery
Other names: Nevada Appeal building
General Location: Southwest corner of Division and King Streets, Downtown Carson City, Nevada
Address: 102 South Division Street
Assessor's PN: 003-207-04
Current use: Civic building (Carson City Parks and Recreation)
Original use: Brewery
Year of construction: 1860-1862
Architect: Unknown
The brick structure is two stories in height and is a commercial variant of Classical Revival style. The encircling cornice above the brick dentil-like banding with belt course suggests this stylistic origin. The segmental arched windows reflect both Classical and Italianate influences. The tall windows of the second floor contain shutters and projecting sills. They are casement windows with three panes on each side. Ground level double doors are recessed with sidelights and arched transoms, divided vertically into lights. The first floor door at the south is single but recessed and three windows of varying size occur in that end of the building.
Shutters have been added and several windows and doors are boarded. The new contemporary arts center stands to the west and wraps around the Brewery to the south. It is essentially a one-story building with a sharply-angled shed roof and forms surfaced in vertical wood siding.
The Brewery is larger in scale and height that the surrounding residences but is smaller that the office building across the street at 400 West King Street. The structure utilizes a commercial/industrial form uncommon to this essential residential area. Its age, materials and scale of design elements, however, provide compatibility.
The structure is important culturally as well as architecturally. Built circa 1862, this early industrial building served as the home of "Tahoe Beer" for over a century. The Carson City Brewery building also served as home of the Nevada Appeal newspaper. The structure was purchase through a community-wide effort initiated by the Arts Alliance in order to protect and preserve it. The building is a competent and well-designed early industrial building and gains significance as a rare remnant of its type in the city.
Source: Brewery Arts Center brochure; Carson City Guide, 1953; Carson City Historic Cookbook.
Listed in the National Historic Register: 1978 Aug 18.
City Landmark: Kit Carson Trail, Plaque No. 42.
Year of construction: 1860-1862 (factual), on the original site.
Subdivision: Sears-Thompson-Sears (Original plat of the Carson City Townsite, 1860).
Architect: Unknown.
Text: Carson City Historic Resources Inventory, 1980.